I dont understand Serpent Cataphracts

[Pocus]

I feel like you are arguing for the sake of arguing Nagot (how do you say 'mauvaise foi' en anglais, Jacques? ).

True, I can tell you too that an army of slingers with wind guides, aim and fire arrows can save my butt where hoplites fail to do so too. Would it proves something about the (lack of) usefulness of slingers, in 99% of the situations? No. Same thing with the cataphracts. Its possible that one time, in a given game, and in exceptionnal circonstances, they can find their moment of grace, but still. They are damn underpowered (for their price)!

a reduction in resources to the heavy cav level would be of interest (even if they keep their too high price).

And I'm not discarding solo play. But solo play dont really care about unit balance. in solo play, I recruit plenty of velites as frontline, to pretend I have Roman legions...

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:

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Originally posted by Pocus:
they are underpowered enough to never be built, at least if you play MP.

I've used them in a Dom 1 MP game, and they saved my butt, while my other troops couldn't. And I'll do it again in Dom 2 if I find myself trapped in the same situation.

So by definition they are useless. Either trash the unit,

I can't see how trashing them would change anything to the current situation, and you're writing off SP players completely.

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